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SIDING GAGE.

No. 314,134. Patented Mar. 17, 1885.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE- JAMES HARVY JENKINS, QF THOMASVII JLE, GEORGIA.

SIDING-GAGE.

.. SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 314,134, dated March 17, 1885.

Application filed November 20, 18:34. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I. JAMES HARVY JEN- KINS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Thomasville, in the county of Thomas and State of Georgia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Siding-Gages, of whichthe following is a description.

This invention relates to that class of gages which are used in siding or Weatherboarding houses to space the boards relatively to each other; and it has for its object to provide means whereby thefweather-boards may be marked to be sawed off at any desired point, and means whereby the ends of two boards may be held at one time ready to be nailed on at the proper distance from a given line or from the edge of a'previously-fixed board.

To this end my invention consists in the construction and combination of parts forming a siding-gage, hereinafter described and claimed, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure l is a side elevation of my invention complete. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the part A. Fig. 3 is a perspective View of the part B; and Fig. 4 is a transverse vertical section at x m, Fig. 1.

A represents the body, provided with two spurs, an, which are to be driven into the house for the edge of the board which is being applied to rest on. m is the head of the .body, upon which light hammer blows may be applied to drive it in, as stated.

B is the gage-arm, graduated to a scale of inches and fractions thereof and slotted longitudinally at t to receive the gage-block g, which is provided with a set-screw, h, whereby it may be secured at any point in the slot 't. The arm B is formed with a right-angular bend, which is perforated by a slot, 0, through which a binding-screw, h, passes up into the squaring gage S. The body A is slotted through at b to allow the screwh to pass. This slot permits the body A to be adjusted along the L of arm B, whereby the spurs n a may be adjusted to enter the house any desired amount before the arm B hits the board.

I Z are small projections or lugs on the L of arm B, serving as side guards to keep the body A in line.

c' is a longitudinal line on the body A extending from the center of its fork to the slot b.

p is the vertical edge of the squaringgage S, coincidiugwith the line i, by which a scratch-awl may be drawn to mark the boards to be sawed off, so that two boards ending at line 7; areinsured to fit each other when marked by the edge 1), their ends resting on the body A and projecting one after the other past the line. The gage may be vertically short, as here shown, so as merely to serve to mark both boards exactly alike, and a try-square afterward be used to mark the boards across; or this gage S may be long enough to extend upward across the board, and serve at once as a squaring-gage. The line 2' assists the operator to bring the scratch-awl exactly to the right point when the gage Sis a little in front of the board.

In use the body A is set for the spurs n to project the distance desired beyond the arm B, and the gage S is at the same time set far enough forward to admit a board behind it. Then the gage-block g is set at the right distance from the body A to give the desired amount of exposed face to the board. One board being first nailed on, the block 9 is placed at the lower edge thereof, and the spurs n are thus driven intothe board. Now, another board is placed with its lower edge on the body A and nailed to the house. By moving the head end an of the body A from side to side the spurs are withdrawn, and the device is then to be placed to gage another board. It is best'to use two of these gages with long boards-one at each end. When a space between window or door frames is to be fitted, it is best to try a board which is too short to reach, and set the gage near the end to be cut off. Then the gage will serve, as before described, to hold the ends of two meeting boards and to mark the line of their juncture on both previous to sawing. The setting of the gage g is aided by the scale on the arm B.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination of the slotted body A, provided with the spurs a, the gage S,provided with flanges f, fitted to the said body, the angular arm B, having slots t and e, the screw ICO h, passing through a slot in the body A and with the line i, the arm B, and the screw h, 10 arm B, and securing the gage S and the said passing through the arm B and body A into body and arm together, the gage g, and the the gage S, substantially as shown and descrew h, passing through the slot tinto the scribed.

gage g, substantially as shown and described. y T

2. The combination of the body A,pr0vided JAMES HARVY JENNA with the spurs n, the central line, '5, and the \Vitnesses:

slot 1), the gage S, fitted to the said body and GEORGE W. HERRING,

having the vertical straight-edgep, coinciding BENJAMIN I. XVALKER. 

